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History of the National Christmas Tree
Nearly everyone is familiar with the White House Christmas Tree, which marks 94 years of tradition in 2017. Here’s a bit of the tree’s history from the official website,thenationaltree.org.
In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge walked from the White House to the Ellipse to light a 48-foot fir tree decorated with 2,500 electric bulbs...

Play it Safe with Holiday Lighting
With the holidays coming up, it might be tempting to load up you electrical outlets with too much stuff – lights, inflatables, electric trains and who knows what else. When you do this, you run the risk of overloading a circuit – causing everything...

Benjamin Franklin – the Father of Electricity… Maybe
Legend holds that Benjamin Franklin – the statesman, newspaper editor, scientist, etc. – discovered electricity by standing in a thunderstorm with a metal key tied to a kite string. However, history shows that this might not be the case.
According to an article...